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scabbard

/skab-erd/US // ˈskæb ərd //UK // (ˈskæbəd) //

刀鞘,鞘套,鞘,柙

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a sheath for a sword or the like.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to put into a scabbard; sheathe.

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Examples

  • Whenever an injustice occurred, Hitchens would declare, “The pen of the Hitch will flash from its scabbard.”

  • A leather swordbelt, gold-embroidered at the edges, carried a long steel-halted rapier in a leather scabbard chaped with steel.

  • Nevertheless, he was girt with a sword in a ragged scabbard hanging from a frayed and shabby belt of leather.

  • "I want you to whip this malapert with your sword-scabbard," roared the old patrician, pale with anger.

  • I had half drawn my sword from its scabbard, but I returned it: I made an inward determination as to his fate, and I kept it.

  • "One seems to be the scabbard, the other the blade," whispered Albert de Gondi in her ear.